Overrated Musicals

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Overrated Musicals#1
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:44pm
I will start with Grey Gardens

It is enjoyable, has a nice score & great performances but it is not the greatest thing since sliced bread

I liked SA better & Mary Poppins & eagerly look forward to Curtains

Let the games begin
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re: Overrated Musicals#2
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:46pm
May I be extreeeeemely rude?

RENT, and
Anything by SONDHEIM.

Oh, I've done it now.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.


Derek Mahon

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re: Overrated Musicals#2
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pm
I think Wicked. The musical itself isn't bad at all, but critics are comparing every show to it.
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re: Overrated Musicals#3
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pm
Spring Awakening
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re: Overrated Musicals#4
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pm
I agree on RENT but like the movie more than the show

Re Sondheim, I must slighly disagree. He is talented & writes great scores but can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on

Follies was a once in a lifetime experience & one of the greatest musicals written
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re: Overrated Musicals#5
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:49pm
Oh man, this is going to be a fighting thread!

I'm going to go with:
Hair
Spring Awakening
Bare
Sunday in the Park
Into the Woods

They all have good qualities, but are held in higher esteem than they deserve, I think.
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re: Overrated Musicals#6
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
I was bored silly with Into the Woods
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re: Overrated Musicals#7
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
a) It's Grey Gardens, with an E.

b) How many more of these threads do we really need?
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re: Overrated Musicals#8
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
"can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on"

No.
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The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
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re: Overrated Musicals#9
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:52pm
Ok

You want to keep him there fine. If that does it for you great
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re: Overrated Musicals#10
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:53pm
Phantom,Phantom, and Phantom
oh and Wicked

"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"

"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
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re: Overrated Musicals#11
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:54pm
Phantom No
Wicked Yes
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re: Overrated Musicals#12
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:55pm
Spring Awakening

Trifflin'
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re: Overrated Musicals#13
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:00pm
POTO
Into the Woods
Wicked
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
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re: Overrated Musicals#14
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
Yeah, Sondheim is a great wordsmith, but not the world's great composer.

While I really enjoyed Company which I just saw, and I saw so much more with this new orchestration, I think his early work was bordering on genius, but his later stuff lacks his early punch and drive.
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re: Overrated Musicals#15
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
I STRONGLY disagree with Spring Awakening being overrated, although I think some people on here only dislike it because it's popular.

I think, I'm sorry, West Side Story.
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re: Overrated Musicals#16
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:03pm
Spring Awakening- it was okay, not my favorite
grey gardens- better than spring awakening but still okay
phantom- it was visually stunning and amazing but now....
drowsy- its funny but not that all amazing
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re: Overrated Musicals#17
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:16pm
Maybe I just saw phantom at a bad time, but yeah I was board. I'm a big fan of the book though.

"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"

"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
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re: Overrated Musicals#18
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:29pm
Phantom
Les Miz
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re: Overrated Musicals#19
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:36pm
Wicked
Hello Dolly
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re: Overrated Musicals#20
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:41pm
Dissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop
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re: Overrated Musicals#21
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:41pm
Music Man. Bleck.
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re: Overrated Musicals#22
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:42pm
Music Man was the one good musical Meredith WIlson wrote
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re: Overrated Musicals#23
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:43pm
"Dissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop"

Oh no, how much wrath can an anonymous cipher bring down on a message board - not scared, i have an opinion.
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re: Overrated Musicals#24
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:43pm
Wicked.
Company.
*runs and hides*